XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic, sci.math   
   From: polcott333@gmail.com   
      
   On 12/31/2025 3:16 PM, Pierre Asselin wrote:   
   > In sci.logic Tristan Wibberley wrote:   
   >   
   >> [ ... ]   
   >> Then he defines a new system "P" which he uses to get even more muddled,   
   >> leaves out the crucial elements of his proof because it's too easy to   
   >> get wrong,   
   >   
   > Gödel, muddled? He was the most meticulous sonovabitch that ever   
   > lived!   
   >   
   >   
   >> and Stephen Meyer says he does get it wrong; he seems to be   
   >> the only person in the world that ever checked.   
   >   
   > People have misunderstood Gödel and proved it by their comments.   
   > I don't know who Stephen Meyer is; my money is on Gödel.   
   >   
      
   Gödel proved that there cannot possibly exist any   
   sequence of inference steps in F prove that they   
   themselves do not exist.   
      
   He admitted this himself:   
   ...We are therefore confronted with a proposition   
   which asserts its own unprovability. 15 … (Gödel 1931:40-41)   
      
   Gödel, Kurt 1931.   
   On Formally Undecidable Propositions of   
   Principia Mathematica And Related Systems   
      
      
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